Palestinians remove debris as they search for bodies at a beach cafe hit the previous night by an Israeli air strike while people were watching the World Cup semi-final football match, on July 10, 2014 in the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Yunis.(AFP Photo / Thomas Coex )

The victims were sitting in a beach café in Khan Yunis when the
Israeli F-16 fighter jet struck it.

None of those killed had been warned, according to Gulf News
sources. However, this information could not be independently
verified.

After the strike, there was nothing left of the popular seaside
café.

"It was a normal social occasion," a local policeman
employed by the Palestinian Authority, Wael Soboh, told AFP.
"The boys ate their Ramadan iftar meal here, and then began
watching the match. It is not a military area.”

Eight of the victims were killed immediately, according to
medical sources. The ninth body was initially suspected to be
buried in the sand. However, Gaza's emergency services later said
it had located the body.

The majority of those killed in the strike were in their 20s,
residents said. Three of them – Ahmed, Suleiman, and Mussa Astal
– were extended family members.

In a separate strike on Khan Yunis early Thursday morning, eight
members of one family – including five children – were killed in
an airstrike. Khan Yunis is located in the south of the Gaza
Strip.

The Palestinian death toll rose to 88 as Israel's Operation
Protective Edge continued for the third day, according to the UN.
At least 18 children have been killed in the Gaza Strip since the
operation began. A further 339 people have been injured, many of
them civilians.